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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 151 - 200).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Border Patrol agents instructed to do with water, food, and other belongings they find that migrants have left in the desert?
(a) Destroy everything.
(b) Tag everything for evidence.
(c) Take anything they want or need for themselves.
(d) Donate everything to charity.

2. Which classmate of Cantu's did he most want to see graduate from Border Patrol training with him?
(a) Hart.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Smith.
(d) Morales.

3. What happens to Jose's middle son that Jose tells Cantu he is worried about on page 168?
(a) He was being bullied at school.
(b) He was diagnosed with cancer.
(c) He was hit by a car but was recovering.
(d) He was struggling in keeping up with his math homework.

4. On page 117, what does Cantu dream about that is disturbing?
(a) His teeth rotting out.
(b) A cave littered with body parts.
(c) Finding bodies in the desert.
(d) His mother's death.

5. What visions of migrants does Cantu describe sometimes seeing in his nightmares on page 34?
(a) Migrants who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.
(b) Migrants who have been shot and thrown in mass graves.
(c) Dead migrants who have not made it out of the desert alive.
(d) Migrant children looking for their parents in the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which poet re-imagined the Greek tragedy Antigone set in modern Mexico?

2. What does Hayward tell Cantu about his own experience in the field that makes Cantu see Hayward in a different light on page 145?

3. What kind of case is more paperwork that involves drugs found at the border?

4. On page 101, which elderly relative of Cantu's dies?

5. What do the people who occasionally break into Adam's house always do, according to what he tells Cantu?

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